Quotes About Transformation

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own.

The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.

I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know -- teachers loved me, straight-A student.

I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

Instead of using technology or wearing technology constantly, we will start becoming technology.

With every step her carriage seemed to become a little straighter and her movements more assured: it was as though the mere proximity of the building had caused a brisk professional to emerge from the chrysalis of a careworn wife and mother.

THE PREVALENCE OF the word "New" in maps of the Americas and Australia points to one of the most important aspects of European expansion: ecological and topographic transformation.

La tragedia de los hombres, decía Shaltiel, no estriba en que los perseguidos y los oprimidos aspiren a liberarse y a hacerse respetar. No. La maldad está en que los oprimidos, en lo más profundo de sus corazones, realmente sueñan en convertirse en opresores de sus opresores. Los perseguidos anhelan ser perseguidores. Los siervos sueñan con ser amos.

assemble and disperse, everything changes and is transformed, but no-o-othing can ever change from being to not-being. Not even the tiniest hair growing on the tail of some virus. The concept of infinity is indeed open, infinitely open, but at the same time it is also closed and hermetically sealed. Nothing leaves and nothing enters.

Anyone willing to change," Shmuel said, "will always be considered a traitor by those who cannot change and are scared to death of change and don't understand it and loathe change.

De waarheid is dat alle macht ter wereld een vijand niet in een vriend kan veranderen. Hij kan een vijand in een slaaf veranderen, maar niet in een kameraad. Met alle macht kun je een fanaticus niet veranderen in een tolerant iemand. En met alle macht ter wereld kun je een wraakzuchtige niet veranderen in een vriend.

You cannot write without looking behind you; like Lot's wife. And in doing so you turn yourself and them into blocks of salt.

Zbor din tine în tine

But sometimes when you wore a mask for a very long time, it became your face.

Amulya Malladi

She traveled the world, and turned into the person she could be in other places with people she would never see again.

I bought packets of wildflower and zinnia seeds, and sprinkled them around the falling-down house. Maybe the rain we can expect tonight will do something about it.

Death demands its own designated punctuation mark. Maybe: ______ died/ It is a dividing line / everything on this side is different.

Words and magic are two powerful forces that can change the world.

All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories.

How is destruction beautiful? He asked in a challenging tone. You may think that a broken egg is ugly and messy, she answered, but the cake it goes into is beautiful and won't hold together without it. Eggs don't get blown up. They get broken. You've never seen me bake, she replied with a smirk.